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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not
discourage. —CHANNlNG.
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
WE had been told so frequently
for so long that the middleman
is responsible for most of our
high-cost-of-living troubles that we
had come to believe it. The middle
man we had come to see in the light
of the consumer's bugaboo—a crea
ture with horns and a tail and a never
satisfied appetite for money. AVe be
held him snatching greedily the
profits of the poor farmer on one hand
and our own surplus change on the
other.
Perhaps the picture was modeled
more on fact than fancy, but be that
as it may, all middlemen are not built
on those lines. Take our own milk
distributors, for instance. The farm
ers would have forced nine cents a j
quart, retail, upon us. That we are [
paying only eight cents is due to the
stand taken by the retail dealers
against extortionate prices.
"The West is afire for Wilson." Crazy
with the heat!
THIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN
THE political campaign now draw
ing to a close has been the
quietest presidential contest in
the history of Dauphin county. That
is because the Democrats have rec
ognized that this is a Republican year,
at least so far as this city and county
are concerned, and have made little
effort toward the election of their can
didates. It has always followed that
when Dauphin county Democrats have
set out to make a hot fight the Repub
licans have immediately accepted the
Challenge. This year the Republicans
have been left to make their own cam
paign to suit themselves and they have
confined their efforts largely to getting
about among the voters, with personal
canvassing and well attended mass
meetings varying as a means of mak
ing the candidates known personally
to every man in the county.
There has been a gratifying absence
of attack and personal abuse. The
\ Democrats have not engaged in such |
tactics and the Republicans never have I
been given to that kind of campaign
ing except under the force of neces
sity.
Nevertheless, it has been an effective j
campaign. It goes without saying, for
instance, that Congressman Kreider
and Senator E. E. Beidleman, who
won out in the terrific three-cornered
fight of four years ago, will win again
with the Republican party reunited
this Fall. Dauphin county is normally
Republican and registration and en
rollment show that it has even stronger
leanings In this direction now than
usual.
It is assumed that the whole Repub
lican ticket will win both in Harris
burg and the county at large next
week—the best evidence of this being
that not a Democrat was elected here
in 1912, with the Republican party cut
to pieces, and even the standard
bearer of Democracy could not come
within 4,000 of carrying the county in
1914, although it was his own home
district.
These facts explain why both Demo
crats and Republicans have been so
quiet this year—the Democrats too
hopeless to fight, the Republicans not
having to make such a campaign as
was necessary in former years.
■ The Deutschland's cargo is valued at
two millions, but the value of her crew
is beyond price. They are the type of
hardy heroes that the whole world
loves.
Whatever your political convictions,
you must admit that Governor Hanly
Is a good fighter and that ho can talk
quite as well as he can fight.
THE NEW PRESIDENT
THE new president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, David E.
Tracy, assumes the leadership
of that llvewlre organization at an
auspicious moment. The Chamber
has just completed the most success
ful year In the history of trade organ
izations in this city and it starts out
the coming twelve months with an
enlarged membership, 11 well-filled
treasury and a determination to make
itself felt for good in the activities of
the community.
Mr. Tracy fits into the presidency
niche very well. ITe Is admirably
suited for the duties he will be called
upon to perform. He is an able
businessman and one of the Industrial
leaders of the community. He is
public spirited, a strong believer in
the future of Harrisburg and a man
whose energies are on a par with the
breadth of his vision. There are big
THURSDAY EVENING, EQLHRIFTBUILG TEIJBGRAPH . NOVEMBER 2, 1916.
things before the Chamber and it Is
fortunate that a big man l >sen
selected to direct them.
"Six more Americans lost on the
Marina." But, he kept us out of war.
LESIFWEFORGET
THE new bridge across the Sus
quehanna river at Mulberry
street is nearing completion, and
employers are hoping that its finish
will not bo delayed, because that will
release several hundred workmen who
are badly needed in other enterprises.
But, Mr. Wage-earner and Mr.
Businessman, do you remember that
when the Cumberland Valley Rail
road Company announced its inten
tion to build that bridge men said:
"Thank God, it will give work to
some of our thousands of idle work
men."
Times have changed. Let us go
back for a moment, lest we forget
that sorrowful winter of 1913-14 and
to what we owe the good times of
to-day.
The Underwood tariff law went into
effect October 4, 1913, ten months be
fore the European war began.
What happened?
Business bankrupt, enterprise para
lyzed, capital hiding, labor seeking
employment, soup houses and bread
lines established, charity rooms in
North Front street where women of
husbands out of work labored for
their daily bread. Four million work
ers were out of employment or on
short time. Imports from Europe in
creased enormously and our exports
decreased. Gold left the country to
settle our debts to Europe. A Demo
cratic stamp tax had to bo levied to
meet ordinary expenses of the Gov- j
ernmcnt. Gross earnings of railroads
decreased forty-four million dollars, |
and scores ot railroad men working
less than half-time. Nearly two hun
dred and fifty thousand men were
laid off by the railroads up to July,
nine months after the Underwood bill
became law. The Clafiin failure for
$34,000,000 occurred. Bankruptcies
were frequent.
On May 29, 1914, a deputation of
businessmen representing nearly a
billion dollars of manufacturing in-1
terests, employing hundreds of thou
sands of workmen, told the President
at the White House that the country
must speedily have relief.
Mr. Wilson replied that the |
situation was "merely psychological."
The European war began. Eu
ropean exporters ceased to send their
products to the United States and be
came our greatest customers, prin
cipally in munitions and war sup
plies. A period of ephemeral pros
] perity ensued. Democratic leaders 1
j seized on this temporary prosperity |
!as an explanation of the disasters;
brought on by the Underwood low j
tariff law and have ever since been j
shouting "Prosperity."
What will happen after the Eu-1
ropean war ends?
Unless there is a protective tar
European producers will again dump
their surplus goods into the United
States and exactly the same conditions
will prevail as under the first ten
months of the Underwood low tariff
law. Labor will be out of employ
ment. Business will suircr.
Unless a Republican President and a
Republican House and Senate are
elected next Tuesday, pledged to a
tariff system for protection of Amer-
I ican labor and industries, a financial
castrophe will occur. Unless the men
who passed the Underwood law are
put out of office Harrisburg, with the
nation at large, will return at the close
of the war to the dark days when men
j rendered up thanks for the chance of
j a big railroad contract that gave work
I to a few of the idle thousands. Unless
. a Republican president and a Re
; publican Congress are elected next
Tuesday we shall see again the mills
| closed, the railroads laying off men
j by the hundreds and the Associated
Aids Society rc-opening its sewing
rooms so that wives may find means
of earning a dollar or two a week to
save their families from starvation.
We are prosperous now, but the end
of the boom will come with the war,
and then it is either a Republican
tariff—or back to the dark days ot
1914.
You don't need to go outside of
Harrisburg to prove It.
Vlrgina has gone dry. The mint Julep
Is in danger of breaking into the dodo
class.
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Allison Hill had a big Republican
rally last night at the rooms of the
East End Republican club. Thirteenth
and Market streets, and was held for
railroad men. Brotherhood members
were largely represented. Enthusiasm
was strong. The ''speakers were
Charles E. Pass, Arthur H. Hull, and
legislative candidates, Augustus Wild
man and J. W. Swartz.
The rally by the Tenth Ward Re
publican Club, scheduled for to-mor
row night, has been postponed until
Monday night. It will be the wind
up of the present campaign.' The
change was made In order to permit
all Republicans in Harrisburg to
participate in the parade. The big
meeting will follow a short walk
around, and will take place at Sixth
and Maclay streets. Prominent speak
ers will be present.
—Cumberland county is in the
Hughes column. In 1912 Taft had
2,0t>6 votes; Roosevelt, 3,498, and
Wilson, 5,023. The present Republi
can enrollment is G. 953, almost 900
more than the combined vote of Taft
and Roosevelt that year and 1,900
more than the Wilson vote of 1912.
Farmers are indignant at the arbitrary
change in mail facilities, eight popt
offices having been closed. They are
Eberlys Mills, Hunters Run, Longs
dorf, Montsera, Starners, Trindle
Spring and Uriah. Rural routes have
been discontinued from Huntsdale,
Kerrsville, Newburg, New Kingston,
Allen and West Fairview. Only in
sistent danger caClls from local lead
ers have kept the post offices at Bar
nitz, Huntsdale and Plainfield until
after the election. Congressman A. S.
Kreider of the Eighteenth district,
will receive a tremendous vote, which
will be increased materially since Dr.
J. H. Kreider, Washington candidate
for Congress in 1914, who received
over 6,000 votes, is on the stump for
the Republican ticket. It looks as
though Senator Martin of the Thirty
first District, would carry Juniata,
Mifflin and Perry by a good margin.
He lost Juniata by 150 votes in 1912,
but won by a 1,500 majority. His op
ponent at that time was Ailman, a
strong Grange man and popular with
the farmers. Leiby, now opposing
him, is not well known. Chairman
Kline's estimate of 1,000 majority in
Cumberland is conservative.
—With pitiless logic, former United
States Attorney General Wickershani
of New York, flayed the policies and
methods of President Wilson at a
monster Republican rally last night.
Mr. Wlckersham contrasted the char
acters of Wilson and Hughes, "the
one bending like a reed to every de
mand of every demagogue and every
agitator," he said; "the other rock
bound to every principle of sound
Americanism." He was especially
severe on the European and Mexican
policies of the President, and con
fidently predicted the election of Mr.
Hughes. Other speakers were: Con
gressnian-at-Large Mahlon H. Gar
land, who attacked the Adamson bill,
declaring it Unconstitutional; Con
gressmen-at-Large Thomas S. Crago
and John R. K. Scott, Senator Charles
A. Snyder and Horace W. Schantz,
candidate for Congress In the Berks-
Lehigh district. The meeting was ar
ranged by Claude T. Reno, former
Progressive county chairman, and on
the platform were many prominent
former Progressives, including Fred E.
Lewis, ex-Congressman - at - Large,
Reuben J. Butz presided, and the
meeting was preceded by a torchlight
parade by the John Hay Republican
Association.
—Charles A. Rittenhouse, of Phila
delphia, has organized a branch of
the Hughes Alliance in this city, with
Judge C. N. Brumm, former Progres
sive leader, as president. The first
vice-president is Joseph W. Moyer,
who was secretary of the Democratic
State Committee fifteen years ago.
Former Representative John Robert
Jones, also a Progressive," is second
vice-president, and John Reber is
secretary and treasurer. Tt was an
nounced that the work of the alliance
Is restricted to boosting Hughes.
Congressman Vare has issued a for
mal statement, predicting a great Re
publican majority In Philadelphia for
Hughes and Fairbanks. The state
ment foljows: "Reports from all sec
tions of the city indicate an old-time
Republican majority for Charles E.
Hughes and the entire Republican
ticket next. Tuesday. The people of
the city have como to realize that the
prosperity of to-day Is due to the Eu
ropean war. They have also been
brought to consider the effect, of
Democratic rule at the close of the
great war. During the last two years
the rapidly increasing Republican
vote in Philadelphia has been such as
to indicate what has materialized this
year. The registration is the greatest
since the passage of the personal regis
tration law, as is the enrollment for
the Republican party. Patriotic Am
ericans are desirous of having a per
son to head the nation who will give
us peace with honor, prosperity with
out war and protection for our work
ingmen. With this in vidw it v behooves
all to vote for Charles E. Hughes for
President.
—Charged with making false state
ments against Charles A. Ambler, for- J
mer Speaker of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives, George D.
Porter, ex-Director of Public Safely,
Philadelphia, was indicted by the
grand Jury yesterday on a charge of
libel. The alleged statements were
made during the campaign prior to
the Spring primaries.
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York
For Vice-President,
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana
For Auditor General,
Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville |
For State Treasurer,
Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsville
For Congress-at-Large,
Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg
M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh
j Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia
John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia
For Congress—lßth District
Aaron S. Kreider, of Annvllle
For Senator,
1 Edward E. Beidleman, of Harrisburg
For Representative,
First District
| Augustus Wildman and J. W. Swartz
Second District,
Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold
For Mine Inspector,
Charles J. Price, of Lykens
Nonpartisan Ticket,
Supreme Court.
Emory A. Walling. o* Erie
A "Dreffle Smart Man"
Col. Harvey accompanies the Presi
dential forecast with a brilliant satire
on the achievements and vacillations
of President Wilson, whom he de
scribes as a "dreffle smart man," af
ter the description of General C. by
James Russell Lowell In the "Biglow
Papers."
Whether as our President a Ham
ilton, is to be preferred to a Burr, a
Cleveland to a Blaine, or a sturdy,
faithful and true scion of line old Am
erican stock to a "dreffle smart man"
—this. Col. Harvey says, is the ques
tion which the voters must decide No
vember 7. It all resolves, he says, into
a question of character, which is the
paramount issue.
In a description of the President's
character, he quotes these lines from
the "Biglow Papers":
"Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man;
He's ben on all sides that gives
places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his
plan—
He's ben true to one party—an' tliet
is himself;
So John P.
Robinson he
Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.
Col. Harvey continues;
"Since the political situation in 1848,
as thus depicted by James Russet
Lowell, bears a striking resemblance
to that of the present time, observers
of the tendency of history to repeat it
self will be interested to recall that
the vote of John P. was offset by the
of the State of New York and Gineral
C. was defeated. Whether a like fate
awaits the 'dreffle smart man' who
now bears aloft the Democratic ban
ner which fell from the palsied hands
of Mr. Cass sixty-eight years ago may
be a matter of opinion, but in all other
respects noted by the poet the analogy
is perfect.
• Many Newspapers Dying
Any line of business in which the
mortality averaged five concerns for
each working day of the year, and
wound up the twelfth month with a
net loss of three a week, would cer
tainly be considered some distance
from that ere. of prosperity of which
we have lately heard so much, and
as inviting serious and immediate ex
amination as to Its condition and pros
pects. Yet this la exactly what hap
pened to the American magazine and
newspaper business during the year
1915, according to that standard and
unimpeachable authority, the Phila
delphia Annual, which, by the law of
the survival of the fittest, now per
sonifies a complete and authentic
cyclopedia of periodical literature.
The Colonel's Energy
TKansas City Times.]
Colonel Roosevelt Is 68 years old
and iht disappointment of those who
have looked to the time when he
would take to a chair, wristlets and a
hot water bottle at his feet is getting
s almost pitiful.
"IF WE ELECT MR. WILSONAS
OWEN WISTER SEES IT IN THIS
WEEK'S ISSUE OF COLLIER'S
j
MANY men, although they do not
wish it at all, nevertheless fear
that next 7th of November Mr.
Wilson may be chosen president of the
United States. They can scarcely im
agine a greater misfortune to the
country—that is, any misfortune like
ly to happen—because they think Mr.
Wilson has made and will make almost
every misfortune possible. This is not
in the least because they have always
been his political enemies and thus,
stuck fast in a party creed, would al
ways oppose on principle whatever
policy he pursued. They started on his
side. Not a few are Democrats, and
all were for him in 1912. Four years
ago he seemed to them the very man
we needed: clear-sighted, cool-headed,
firm of purpose. It is no policy of his
that they oppose now: it is the man.
What they find, what has at first be
wildered and at last estranged them, is
that Mr. Wilson has pursued no policy
at all. One day it was no more army,
another day a great big army; one day
free trade, another day protection:
now Villa, next Carranza; now em
bargo, next no embargo; now too
proud to fight, next a punitive expe
dition.
Mr. Wilson's admission that he haii
"made mistakes" does not bring these
men back to him, because, knowing
him at last, they know he will always
make mistakes, not old ones, but new
ones. To them he Is like some toy
that you wind up to run on the floor;
the machinery starts whirring, but
when the toy is put down it totters
round and round, and finally falls over
because something is wrong with the
wheels. Yet all the while the ma
chinery keeps whirring while it lies
on its side or its back. In these men's
opinions Mr. Wilson whirs very
j smoothly, but doesn't go when you put
him on the floor. He whirred so well
that four years ago they preferred him
to Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt.
Perhaps their final disenchantment
came after he had requested them to
be neutral about the European War
even In their opinions. At the mo
ment of the explosion, while we were
still stunned, before we understood
what the war meant, this was well.
Loyalty to the President was impera
tive Just after that explosion. But
soon we began to understand. By au
tumn little Belgium had been over
whelmed and mutilated, and the sacred
principle of free government derided
and hideously assailed and not a
word from us to cheer on free gov
ernment in its struggle. Distinguish
ed Belgians came over and told the
President of women raped in public,
of babies initialed on bayonets, of
farms and villages in ashes, and the
people burned with them. Still the
President was silent. By then the
war was to his former admirers a
plain moral question, a choice between
right and wrong, between the Declara
tion of Independence and the strict
est despotism: they could not stay
neutral in their opinions. But this
marked only an incident, after all, in
their awakening to the real Wilson—
the unreal Wilson describes him bet
ter; for he now continued to go round
and round.
Mr. Schwab was going to sell some
machinery to the Allies. Mr. Wilson
bejTged him not to do tliis. since it.
would not be neutral. (A singular ln
| terpretation of the rights of neutrals
to trade with belligerents!) Mr. Mor
gan was going to lend some money to
the Allies. Mr. Wilson begged him not
to do this, since it would not he neu
tral. (Very singular again, particular
ly as soon a large loan wus made to
Germany by some Chicago people!)
But, most singular of all, Mr. Wilson
presently urged that we buy from Ger
many her ships that lie idle in New
York harhor, and thus as a nation fur
nish millions to Germany while Mr.
Morgan as an individual must not lend
millions to the Allies.
So Mr. Wilson tottered round and
round his position of neutrality, head
ing! now forward and now backward,
i but\ getting nowhere. Tt was all of a
pieiie with Mexico. About Mexico Mr.
Wilson continued to say one thing and
do the contrary, and then to do the
contrary to what he had done first,
and then to say the opposite to what
he had said before, that; having re
quired our flag to be saluted by a gov
ernment whose, existence he had de
clined to acknowledge, and having
come away when the flag was not
saluted, and then backing Villa, and
then going back on Villa, all the while
lifting up and shutting down embar
goes like gates at a railroad crossing.
By December, 1914, the men who in
1912 had voted for him had for some
time boon humorously known as the
"Uamm-lt-yes Club"; they wished
they could take that vote back. They
wished it with energy and oaths. They
wish it more and more every day..
Question after question they have
seen blundered and bungled, crisis
after crisis shirked and side-stepped,
until they have come to believe as
thoroughly and seriously as ever they
have believed anything in their lives
that Mr. 'Wilson has brought great
harm and confusion to -us, and that
through defects in character he is ut
terly unfit to be President. His way
of meeting the railroad men's threat
to strike has revealed to more citi
zens more than any act of his (so
far) that he is a pitiful, dangerous
masquerader, hiding weakness in
words and dodging every political dan
ger that a true man should face.
But why then should there be any
apprehension that Mr. Wilson will be
re-elected? Tt. Is because of the fear
that the Damn-it-yes Club is still a
small body compared to the millions
who have not yet clearly detected, be
neath Mr. Wilson's fine talk, his twist
ed acts. It takes more attention and
more thought than most voters ever
give to public questions to discern
clearly the havoc in our affairs, both
domestic and foreign, that Mr. Wil
son has already made. Too few have
seen through him. Too few under
stand the blundering feebleness of
those inconsistencies about neutrality.
Too few know or care that the Fourth
of July means more than firecrackers,
that through it we owe a duty to dem
ocracy and the world, and that we fail-
I ed, that Mr. .Vilson played Judas to
the Fourth of July. Europe, weltering
in her own failure, looked to us for a
word and got none. To us, the great
est of free governments, who had
boasted ourselves the big safe beacon
of democracy, free government over
| the sea in its death struggle with
■ despotism turned for a ray of light,
j and Mr. Wilson turned the light out.
■He said we were everybody's friend.
He showed Europe we were not up to
'our Fourth of July brag, he side-step
| lied the greatest chance to make good
I that we have ever had. One spoken
word of protest from him about Eel
glum would have put us right. His
silence put us wrong with the world,
and (what is much worse) with our
selves. When the test came we prov
ed bogus.
Who Kept Us Out of War'.'
Apologists for Mr. Wilson say he
could not take such a step as to con
demn one side in Europe and approve
another that he had 110 "precedent"
for it. Well, he had. He had Daniel
Webster and President Monroe in
1823, if he neoded any "precedent";
and as he has written a history of the
United States, how did he happen to
skip it? Greece was struggling in 1823
as was Belgium in 1914. Webster told
Congress: "The Greeks address the
civilized world with a pathos not easy
to be resisted. . . . They stretch out
their amis to the Christian commu
nities of the earth, beseeching them,
by a generous recollection of their an
cestors, by the consideration of their
ruined cties and villages, by their
wives and children sold Into accursed
slavery . . . that they would extend
to them at least some token of com
passionate regard." The whole inci
dent is recalled by Dr. Mortoi) Prince
in the New York "Times" of Novem
ber 21, 1915.
In 1 823, after suffering intolerable
atrocities, the Grecian Senate had
formally appealed to the United States;
in 1914 Belgium came to us with a
similar appeal. In that day President
Monroe, us well as Webster, addressed
Congress on the subject. And In that
day was Introduced a resolution to
provide for defraying the expense in
cident to our official Investigation of
the atrocities in Greece. Thus In that
day was our attitude as the champion
of free government and of small
states defined by President Monroe.
But in this day no "token of compas
sionate regard" went from Mr. Wilson
to afflicted and appealing Belgium. On
the contrary, he invited us to be neu
tral even in our opinions, and to the
Belgian deputation that waited 011 him
he delivered one of those smooth ut
terances of his, grown so familiar, that
flow from a cold heart and a ready
tongue, and are so full of virtue and
so empty of reality. Too few Ameri
cans care that thus Mr. Wilson de
graded the country. Too few realize
that Germany has slapped our face
and Mexico has spit in it again and
again. Too few can reason out quick
ly that when Mr. Wilson signs an
"eight-hour" law with four pens at
the end of a perfect day he is buy
ing the votes of the railroad brother
hood With money that will coine out
of the pockets of all the rest of la
bor.
Now the few who have seen through
Mr. Wilson and learned his incom
petent and shifty nature hear the
same thing wherever they go, Indoors
and out, In street cars and trains, and
steamboats and hotel, repeated by the
fijettutg CMprt
"X am not. only heartily in favor of
the proposed Camp Curtin memorial,
but I would like to see it made an in
tegral part of the park system in Har
lisburg," said Governor Martin G.
Brumbaugh this morning when lie was
c. bout, to take the train for Kaston to
attend the dedication of the New York
extension of the William Penn High
way. "The idea of marking in a suit
able way the site of Camp Curtin and
of perpetuating the memory of the
War Governor appeals to me and I in
tend to cail the attention of the
lature to tho matter in my message. I
have asked the local committee which
called upon me on Tuesday to furnish
me with some data and with their sug
gestions so that I can consider the
matter. I have vinited that part of
the city and I would like to have the
memorial ot an impressive kind. It
should be a sizable parcel of land and
should be planted with flowers and
properly maintained. It would never
do to have the memorial just as a
in onu merit or something like that
without a proper setting. It should be
surrounded with flowers and shrub
bery and they should be cared for by
the city the same as the rest of the
park system here is looked after."
Alanson Skinner, who comes here
to-night to lecture before the Harris,
burg Natural History Society on the
Everglades of Florida, is assistant
curator in one of the most important
divisions of the great Museum of
Natural History in New York. This
nociety has been the means of bringing
some of the most noted travelers and
naturalists in the country to this city
end a number will be here during the
winter whose names are household
words.
Some of the pranks cut up by the
mummers on Tuesday evening on the
street cars will long be remembered
by the children whom they vastly en
tertained. One fellow who imper
sonated a traveling doctor and another
who was .a detective amused people for
blocks. They paid fares just for a
place to cut up capers and could have
collected more than the "nickel
snatchers" for the Lithuanians if they
had passed the hat.
Dauphin county is said to have or
ganized one of the best forest lire
warning systems of any in the State.
There have been wardens named in
districts which adjoin each other and
cover practically every part of the
wooded section of the county. Speak
ing about it the other day, a man con
versant with the subject as relates to
this county said that a fire could not
start anywhere without someone in
terested enough to give a warning tele
phone message to the man in charge
of the fire fighting district. In other
words, the State and township officials
and those interested in preventing
(ires have ntianaged to link up the tele
phones in a system of alarms for fires
in the woods on the same principle as
the telephones in the city are put to
work when a. fire occurs some distance
from a. box.
• * •
It's a wonder to a good many people
that the city fathers do not provide
better street lighting in some parts of
Derry street, notably beyond Twenty
first, which is being lined with houses
as far out as the eastern city gate at
Poorhouse lane. In spite of the im
mense amount of automobile and other
travel which passes over this street, to
and from the city and towns down the
Lebanon valley, the wagon traffic and
the trolley cars, there are some
■spots which are a nuisance. Two mora
lights and distribution of the rest
would work wonders and benefit not
only people living in this city but
elsewhere.
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Miss Wharton, the authoress, who
was here this week for the meeting of
the Colonial Dames, is visiting some
of the cities of the State and making
some inquiries into their history. Miss
Wharton's hooks, many of which deal
with the romance of early days in the
Colonies, are commencing to attract,
much attention because they are au
thorities on life in the Keystone Com
monwealth before, during and after
the Revolution.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—General Carrol A. Devoo, who has
just retired, was stationed at Camp
Meade for a time.
—Walter J. Christy, the Pittsburgh
political writer, has been touring Ohio.
. —Henry K. Boyer, former State
Treasurer, injured in an automobile
crash, was not seriously hurt.
—H. W. Armstrong, the president
of the Pennsylvania State Real Estate
Association, formed here last week,
was given a luncheon by Pittsburgh
real estate men.
—John T. Dempsey, Scranton min
ers' leader, says that miners are not
having any more holidays than for
merly.
T DO YOU KNOW 1
That Ilnirishurg sells large quan
tities of castings to contractors?
HISTORIC HARHISBURG
The first State arsenal here was in
a warehouse on the river front and its
contents were later removed to Capitol
Hill.
man who is "for Wilson." This man
cares nothing for any of the objec
tions mentioned above, or for any ob
jections whatever; to all objections he
has one invariable threefold reply. This
he repeats with his lips as It has been
taught him, without ever examining it
with his, brains: Mr. Wilson should
be elected because: 1. We are pros
perous. 2. One must not swap
horses while crossing a stream. 3. He
kept us out of war.
Now, a despotism where the people
don't think can go on; the government
is thinking for them: but a democracy
where the people don't think will stop;
they are government. The unthinking
who repeat those three reasons why
Mr. Wilson should be elected might
precisely as well say they are for him:
1. Because we are Mormons. 2. Be
cause there are no eggs In the last
year's nests. 3. Because he won the
Battle of Manila Bay.
Some of us are Mormons, and some
of us are prosperous, but Mr. Wilson _
Is responsible for making us neither 9
the one nor the other. And were many
of us prosperous before August, 1914?
Have they forgotten the thousands of
unemployed in 1914, starved by Mr.
Wilson tariff, fed by charity, restored
to wages by the war? Do they con
sider Mr. Wilson as a horse pulling us
thrbugh a stream? Mr. Wilson is the
driver who has nearly upset the coach.
But these things are being dally ex
plained by many. And by nobody so
well as by Mr. Roosevelt has It been
explained that our state of "peace"
with Mexico has Cost more lives and
misery and millions than our war with
Spain. But there is something be
sides this that needs very much to
be said, and it can hardly be said
too earnestly or too often at the pres
ent time.
(To Be Continued.) -